Follow Your Own Path

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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination, never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. (Sefra Kobrin Pitzele, One More Day, 26 May)

We are just as powerless over our successes as we are over the worst of our behaviors. (Touchstones, 28 June)

I am aware of the wonders and opportunities around me. I will share the joy I find. (Sefra Kobrin Pitzele, One More Day, 17 June)

Follow your own path in life, and do not concern yourself with the path that others have chosen. (Suzanne Somers, 365 Ways to Change Your Life, Day 184)

• Yesterday we put a tape in the VCR to record the men's tennis final at Wimbledon. I only watched the last part of the fifth set. Melva didn't get home from work until 7:00 p.m. Sometime between then and this morning she watched the entire match.


• More houses are becoming vacant in the the neighborhood. There are approximately 120 houses in the development. A rental truck showed up at a house on Hendricks yesterday. If this house is vacated there will be seven empty houses. There is a For Sale sign in front of one other house. That one is a bad situation because the elderly owner moved out and younger generations are living there and destroying the house before he can sell it. Two doors away is a vacant house that recently needed police intervention when the doors were discovered open. When the owner lady and the police arrived they discovered that the basement was standing in water. The house where the rental truck showed up has never had public power to the house in all the months that the current occupants have lived there. They used a generator to power the house, sometimes running it twenty-four hours a day. When we called our county councilman to complain about the noise we got no help. This isn't unusual. The county leaders don't appear able to carry out their duties. We have trouble getting the county to trim or cut down the trees along the street which are their responsiblity. We can't get them to enforce the laws about parking on the wrong side of the street, parking on the grass or having unlicensed cars in the yards. What a mess we are in.

Mr. Dickie